Cigar-lighter.



No. 897,687. PATENTED SEPT. 1, 1908. C. A. WAGNER.

CIGAR LIGHTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 4, 1908.

IIVVEIVTOR Mm MY mwm ATTORNEY.

CHARLES A. WAGNER, OF-BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

CIGAR-LIGHTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 1, 1908.

Application filed March 4, 1908. Serial No. 419,113.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. WAGNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigar-Lighters, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates especially to pocket devices employed for lighting cigars,ciga rettes, etc., and wherein a flint and steel are used for ignitinga tinder or fabric, and has for its object the provision of. a very simple and effective article of this class.

To attain the desired end, my invention consists in certain novel and useful combinations or arrangements of parts, and peculiarities'of construction and operation, all of which will be hereinafter first fully de scribed, and then pointed out in the claims.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a side elevation of a lighter embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an interior view with one side of the inclosing casing removed. Fig. 3 is a top plan view. Fig. 4 is asideview of the upper portion of the operating mechanism, .Withthe slide in the top of the case thrown back.

Similar numerals of reference, wherever they occur, indicate corresponding parts in all' the figures.

1 is the inclosing case, made of any approved material.

2 is a perforation or opening in the top of the case, and 3 is a slide for closing said open mg.

4 is a manipulating knob fixed to the slide 3 and projecting through a slot 5 in the top of the case. The slide 3 bears an extinguishing device 7.

8 is a train of gears arranged to be driven by a hand-piece or key 9, upon the outside of the case 1, the shaft of the upper gear hearng a steel disk 10 having cuts or notches 11 in its periphery.

12' is a flint carried by a spring 13 which presses the flint against the edge of the disk 10.

14 is a tinder or fabric resting against the end ofthe case 1, and arranged to be moved upward or downward by means of a toothed wheel 15.

In lighters of the kind to which my invention relates, inefficiency of operation has arisen from the gradual deposit of a coating of metal upon the flint until a spark could no longer be obtained, or only by repeated movement of the sparking mechanism. With my arrangement this difiiculty is overcome as the notches in the steel disk scrape the face of the flint when the disk revolves, preventing any such deposit and insuring the striking of sparks, as required. Again; after the use of the light, as formally arranged, the tinder or fabric would continue to burn until the oxygen in the inclosing case to support combustion, was consumed, thus leaving a deposit of ashes on the fabric which prevent ed the sparks from igniting the same when the lighter was again required for use.

With my lighter, the slide 3 is first thrown back to the position shown in Fig. 4 of the drawing, the fabric is ignited by the sparking mechanism, and then the fabric is raised sufficiently to permit the lighting of a cigar therefrom, when it is moved back to the po sition shown in said figure, and the slide moved to the position shown in Fig. 2 of the drawing, inclosing the ignited end of the fabric in a small space formed by the part 7 carried by the slide excluding the atmosphere to support combustion and pinching the end of the fabric, quickly extinguishing thefire and preventing the formation of a coating of ashes on the end of the fabric.

Having now fully described my invention what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In a cigar lighter of the character here in specified, the combination with a piece of tinder, of an inclosing case therefor, and a slide adapted to act upon the extremity of the Ltinder or fabricand pinch the same, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a cigar lighter of the character herein specified, a case having an opening or perforation in its top, and an ignitible tinder located within the case, in combination with a slide adapted to close the opening or perforation in the top of the case, and an extinguishing device adapted to inch the end of the fabric, carried by said s ide.

In testimony whereof I hereto affix my signature in presence oftwo witnesses.

CHARLES A. WAGNER.

Witnesses:

Louis T. BRAUN, A. M. PIERCE. 

